Celeste M. Baldwin, PhD, APRN - Acute Pediatrics, CNS

In addition to serving on the Adjunct Graduate Nursing Faculty at Regis, Celeste M. Baldwin, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., C.N.S. taught at The University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing and the Dental Hygiene Department of Graduate Nursing DNP Program, as well as, the University of Hawaii Maui College Department of Allied Health, The University of Phoenix Honolulu HI campus, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, Lourdes College and St. Vincent Mercy Toledo, Ohio, The University of Illinois Chicago School of Graduate Nursing, Chicago Ill, and DePaul University in Chicago, Ill.

Dr. Baldwin worked as a Unit Manager at Maui Memorial Medical Center in outpatient oncology. In addition, she worked as Staff Nurse at Good Shepard Hospital in pediatrics and obstetrics, Barrington, Ill, in the float pool at Children’s Memorial Hospital Chicago, Ill, as an Assistant Head Nurse at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and as a Staff Nurse at St. Francis Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Dr. Baldwin serves as the associate editor for the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (CJON), as well as editor for the Advanced Practice Oncology Nurse Review Book 3rd Ed. (in press). Dr. Baldwin is a board member and past president of the Hawai’i Immunization Coalition, a member of Sigma Theta Tau, and past board member and reviewer for the Team Based Learning Collaborative. Dr. Baldwin’s philosophy of nursing is based on the self-care modeling and role-modeling theory by Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain, whereby the nurse unconditionally accepts the patient, nurtures them, and helps facilitate care with them. This is also the theory that Dr. Baldwin utilizes and applies in working with nursing students.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Ph.D., in Educational Administration and Supervision at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
• M.S.N. in nursing at DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
• B.S.N. in nursing at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.